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April 10th 2017:The Changing Faces Of Conservation with Nigel Kuhn

As we’ve been discussing over a long period of time, conservation models must change. We’ll be spending several episode highlighting just how this is happening on the ground and the new faces and people that are coming up the ranks, picking up the torch from the old guard and adding the new components, skill sets and tools that are required in a very changed landscape- from climate shifts to shifta, terrorism, and transnational wildlife criminal gangs. My guest today is Nigel Kuhn, who you’ll remember from WildiZe’s Observer Team at CITES CoP17. Nigel brings us an understanding of not only wha

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Featured Guest

Nigel Kuhn

Nigel’s background begins in the bush veld of Zimbabwe to South Africa to the British Army Green Jackets Rifle group. From there he pursued field courses in professional guiding, journalism, photography and filmmaking, and speaking several languages - putting all these skill sets to work in documenting and changing the face of conservation on the ground, working in some of the most hostile environments with community groups who are often isolated by geography and civil unrest and lack of rules of law and law enforcement.